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CBS News reports that, while traffic accidents kill 42000 (yes, forty-two thousand) Americans a year, the pollution from the cars may actually be killing even more than that.

"More people in the United States and other developed countries today will die from air pollution created by traffic than by traffic crashes themselves," said Devra Lee Davis, first author of the study appearing Friday in the journal Science. "We spend billions trying to prevent traffic crashes but we do not spend billions trying to control air pollution even though the effects are in fact greater."

I'd be happy if people worried more about traffic pollution and crashes. It amazes me the attention paid to miniscule risks like plane crashes, while car crashes kill hundreds of people every day, and injure ten times that many. posted by Richard at 18:49 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)